Saints take on Newcastle United on Saturday and speaking to Saints supporters the feelgood factor is very much back in town.
The doom and gloom of the summer seems to be a million miles away as does last season for Saints supporters, some supporters felt that they would never trust the club again, but here we are for the second home game of the season and amazingly people are looking forward to it with enthusiasm.
Even three weeks ago when we opened our home campaign up against West Brom there was a feeling of worry about the place, although the new signings had dampened down the knee jerk reaction brigade from the summer, there was still a feeling that things were not quite right, but what a difference the time since then has made, firstly there was a magnificent win at West Ham where we not only showed we could change tactics, but that we could come from behind and win, but more importantly a couple of players who were getting a bit of stick played vital parts, those up in East London left energised by the performance.
Then there was the end of the transfer window, the two signings brought in enthused the bulk of Saints supporters, they just seemed to be the icing on the cake and finally Ronald Koeman's squad seemed to be complete, suddenly the next game could not come quick enough.
Anticipation has been building over the past days and there is that air of confidence about the side that has been lacking, on paper at least we now seem to have a squad that not only wants to play for the club, but looks potentially to be better than last years squad.
The win at West Ham showed that we are no longer one trick ponies and the words coming out of the club show that our ambition is still there, but now its realistic and achievable and when we have done just that we can then look at the next step afterwards.
But having the feelgood factor back is fine, but we need to show it on the pitch and a bit of patience is called for here, at the moment we stand on exactly the same number of points that we did after the same number of games last season, our 4th game back then saw a 0-0 draw with West Ham, if we beat Newcastle then we will have exceeded the points total from last seasons openers and that would b ideal.
Saints supporters can see that there have been some quality players brought into the club, a few performances from them that their quality promises and the good times will be back again.